Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-01-31
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was Child she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Gold has been discovered in the Shenan
doah valley, Virginia.
DIR. Charles n. Moore, of Springfield
Penn, is dying from the effects of the
new drug, cocaine. He applied the drug
hypodermically to allay pain.
Hoffman and Bell, the two men who
wrecked the train on the Missouri Pacific
| railroad, were taken from the jail at Ne
braska City and lynched recently.
Miss Albertine Hevener, living six miles
from Syracuse, being unable to meet the
payment on her house, set fire to the build.
ing Sunday and burned up with it.
The st. Paul ice palace was opened last
week. Mercury stood fifteen below zero.
Eighteen miles of gas pipe were used in
illumination and 90, 900 colored lights were
used in arches and side lights. The streets
presented beautiful appearance.
A disastrous prairie fire swept across
the country north of Talebuah, Indian
Territory, recently, destroying barns,
dwellings. hay stacks, corn cribs and 9TH
er property. Numerous pigs were roast
ed in their pens. No human life was lost
The longest toboggan slide in the
world probably, is the one which Pierre
Lorillard has built at Tuxedo Park, n. J.
1t is over 1000 feet from end to end
nearly mile in length-and SO steep that
a toboggan makss the trip in 80 seconds.
All the other slides are cast in the shade
by this monster chute.
As nearly every one in Europe is now
talking about a probable war, let us see
how many men each nation can bring into
the fray: Russia, 1000, OOO France, p
43O 900; Germany, 2,5OO,O Austria,
I,770, 900; Italy, 2,4OO 900; Turkey, 500
600; making a total of over 1900, 900
men. If all these arms were employed in
agriculture and commerce.
One Of the attorneys engaged in the
business of getting up reports of immense
fortunes in Great Britain which are await
ing claimants in the United States has
fallen into the hands of the London po-
lice. He calls himself George Franklin
Anderson. and is charged with defrauding
d.. Il d..
of s20,OO by false pretenses.
An artesian well now being bored in St.
Augustine upsets many preconceived ideas
about Florida. The well, which Is twelve
inches in diameter, is.the largest artesian
well in the world, and by actual measure
ment flows at the rate of 1000, 900 gallons
a day. The well is now seven hundred
sixty feet below the surface and is being
deepened every day. The old-fashioned
idea that Florida was of a coral forna-
ton has OF late years been vigorously dis
puted. The boring of this well proves
that an immense depth Of coral undcrlies
the state, and samples of the material
have been saved at every stage Of depth.
Another interesting fact is that the deeper
the well is drilled the higher the tempera-
tqre of the water becomes. 1t is now
about eighty degrees Fahrenheit.
As careful estimate OF tue Continent
al naval armaments by the English ad-
miralty, the articles by Sir Edward
Reed on the navies of Europe, in HAIR
PER's MAGAZINE, deserve attentive study
from every one who would understand
the relative maritime equipments Of the
great powers. The January portion Of
this subject was devoted to the French
navy. The forthcoming February Mum
Der concludes the matter with review
o. the Italian, Russian, German, Austri-
an. and Turkish navies. Their compar-
alive strength proves TO be In the order
We have given them. The explanation
of each nations peculiar method OF ma
val construction shows the reason why
Italy ranks third among the European
nayies, following England and France,
and leading Germany and Russia The
Illustrations are very complete and
strong.